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“Negative interest rates? Over my dead body.” Jerome Powell did not say that. But if one were to reimagine the Federal Reserve chairman in a superhero comic book, that is precisely how his dramatized version would have screamed about “the biggest monetary policy experiment of modern times.” In the real world, a less-theatrical Powell conveyed…

In this article, CoinStats delves into the world of two exchanges to know which one is better in the always-heated Binance vs Coinbase competition. The first step for any average Joe who has just decided to venture into the world of cryptocurrency trading is to find that one crypto exchange that brings a decent debut…

Players in the financial and technology sector have different opinions about bitcoin. For skeptics, the cryptocurrency is reminiscent of Holland’s notorious Tulip bubble of 1637. They generated a wild, speculative mania and disappeared, leaving behind pretty flowers and wrecked investors. Meanwhile, for supporters, bitcoin is the internet: a symbol of decentralization that reached its full…

DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused online search platform, recently conducted a study to find out the opinion of the general public about the importance of data privacy. Results showed that nearly 80 percent of the 1,114 US respondents took measures to regulate privacy on social media over the past year. One-quarter of them went as far as…

Blockchain projects that raised capital via the distribution of digitized private securities yielded 87 percent losses, according to the Block Crypto. The cryptocurrency news and research service found that the so-called initial coin offering projects, or ICOs, raised at least $14 billion to $65 billion between August 2014 and December 2018. But 90.2 percent of…

The price of bitcoin is down 5.32 percent on a 24-hour adjusted timeline, but its correction bias is shaking sentiments across the rest of the cryptocurrency market. Following the bitcoin’s slippage to the lower $12,000 level, the total cryptocurrency market capitalization wiped off more than $50 billion in a matter of 12 hours. Leading the…